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IndustrialRevolutio
Ch 22 Vocab for APWH
Question | Answer |
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the transformation of farming that resulted in the 18th century (p. 570) | agriculture revolution |
recurrent swings from economic hard times to recovery and growth, then back to hard times and a repetition of this cycle (p. 586) | business cycles |
Building erected in Hyde Park, London, for the Great Exhibition in 1851. Made of iron and glass, like a gigantic greenhouse, it was a symbol of the industrial age (p. 578) | Crystal Palace |
technique used by Josiah Wedgwood to increase productivity and lower cost of manufactured goods (p. 574) | division of labor |
rapid, long-distance transmission of information over a wire | electric telegraph |
transformation of the economy, the environment, and living condition, in the 18th century | Industrial Revolution |
pottery works, division of labor | Josiah Wedgwood |
steam engine | James Watt |
government keep hands of businesses, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations advocated it | laissez faire |
application of machinery to manufacturing | mechanization |
promote overseas trade | mercantilism |
manufacture of many identical products through division of labor | mass production |
philosophy by Saint-Simon, apply scientific method to social and economic problems | positivism |
most successful textile manufacturer; invented water frame | Richard Arkwright |
turns water vapors into power | steam engine |
cooperative, self-sustaining communities; Charles Fourier | utopian socialism |